How to Get Cursor to Change Before Mouse Moves When Changing the Cursor Style Dynamically

Cursor style doesn't update when element dynamically moved under it

Temporarily manually setting the cursor to move seems to work.
As soon as the mouse is moved again, the JS-applied CSS is cleared + normal behavior takes over.

http://jsfiddle.net/x0nbvt25/2/

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("body").on("click", function(c){
        $(".drag").offset({
            top: c.pageY-8,
            left: c.pageX-25
        });
        $("body").css("cursor", "move");
        $("body").mousemove(function(){
            $("body").css("cursor", '');
        });
    });
});

Change the mouse cursor on mouse over to anchor-like style

Assuming your div has an id="myDiv", add the following to your CSS. The cursor: pointer specifies that the cursor should be the same hand icon that is use for anchors (hyperlinks):

CSS to Add

#myDiv
{
    cursor: pointer;
}

You can simply add the cursor style to your div's HTML like this:

<div style="cursor: pointer">

</div>

EDIT:

If you are determined to use jQuery for this, then add the following line to your $(document).ready() or body onload: (replace myClass with whatever class all of your divs share)

$('.myClass').css('cursor', 'pointer');

Getting the browser cursor from wait to auto without the user moving the mouse

It is a bug in both browsers at the moment. More details at both links (in comments as well):

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26723

and

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20717

Change the mouse pointer using JavaScript

Javascript is pretty good at manipulating css.

 document.body.style.cursor = *cursor-url*;
 //OR
 var elementToChange = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
 elementToChange.style.cursor = "url('cursor url with protocol'), auto";

or with jquery:

$("html").css("cursor: url('cursor url with protocol'), auto");

Firefox will not work unless you specify a default cursor after the imaged one!

other cursor keywords

Also remember that IE6 only supports .cur and .ani cursors.

If cursor doesn't change: In case you are moving the element under the cursor relative to the cursor position (e.g. element dragging) you have to force a redraw on the element:

// in plain js
document.getElementById('parentOfElementToBeRedrawn').style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById('parentOfElementToBeRedrawn').style.display = 'block';
// in jquery
$('#parentOfElementToBeRedrawn').hide().show(0);

working sample:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>First jQuery-Enabled Page</title>
<style type="text/css">

div {
    height: 100px;
    width: 1000px;
    background-color: red;
}

</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.js"></script></head>
<body>
<div>
hello with a fancy cursor!
</div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.cursor = "url('http://wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org/images/e/e2/Arrow.cur'), auto";

</script>
</html>

How to Get Cursor to Change Before Mouse Moves When Changing the Cursor Style Dynamically

Cursor style doesn't update when element dynamically moved under it

Change the mouse cursor on mouse over to anchor-like style

Getting the browser cursor from wait to auto without the user moving the mouse

Change the mouse pointer using JavaScript

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